Alison Tindale grows and sells perennial vegetable plants. Perennial vegetables don't need replanting every year- they're the perfect edible plants for a busy lifestyle! So much less work than traditional annual vegetables giving you delicious food, even in winter, in return for a bit of weeding and mulching. Many of these plants are shade lovers or shade tolerant and will grow in a forest garden.

On these pages, I present solid information on (currently) 117 different spice plants. Emphasis is on their usage in ethnic cuisines, particularly in Asia; furthermore, I discuss their history, chemical constituents, and the etymology of their names. Last but not least, there are numerous photos featuring the live plants or the dried spices.

Hortus Brambonii is a blog about nature, gardening and cooking with unexpected ingredients. I like to see plants in the wild, try new plants in the garden and discover new tastes, and so sometimes I’ll write about it. Some of my articles will be in dutch, while others will be in English.

A person can learn a lot about plants through the everyday acts of slicing and eating them. This space is devoted to exploring food plants in all their beautiful detail as plants – as living organisms with their own evolutionary history and ecological interactions. Our goal is three-fold: to share the fascinating biology of our food plants, to teach biology using edible, familiar examples, and to suggest delicious ways to bring the plants and their stories to your table.

The Diligent Gardener is an online gardening magazine based in the UK for keen gardeners. Whether you’ve got a garden, allotment, or balcony, you’ll find all the gardening ideas and advice you need to create a beautiful and truly satisfying private space to relax and be at home in.

Gardeners tend to be a resilient lot, hardy dependable and patient. Able to overcome the most extreme conditions, put up with set backs, never to give up in order to bring seeds to life, observe the emergence of new shoots, the explosion of blossom and the maturing of fruit.